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by _qulr 6y ago
> It's still very relevant Regardless, the submission should have "(2019)" in the title.
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by _qulr 6y ago
This article is from 2012. Please label your older submissions with the year in the title.
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by _qulr 6y ago
This article is from February 2019
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by _qulr 6y ago
I would define it as continual majority rule. The anti-majority aspect should be obvious at this point: the President lost the popular vote (and indeed got the votes of only 26% of eligible voters), and the majority of the Senate represents
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The closer in time to the adoption of the constitution we can trace some pattern (or in the case of a law to enactment of the law) that is more persuasive. This sounds a lot like "originalism", which is controversial at best.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> they always contemplated that the Senate majority and Presidency might disagree for political reasons. They did. The danger to the country is actually when they agree. What happened here is that the Senate refused to compromise, and si
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I see a common irrational theme of "let's change the rules because they didn't work out in my favor this time". IMO they didn't work out in anyone's favor. Our country is a mess, and the majority of people
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Alternatively, McConnell could have called the vote and the Republican majority in the Senate could have just voted it down. It can't be assumed that there wouldn't be Republican defections on a Garland confirmation. This is
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Branch, not party. I can read. I was referring to "The process is supposed to be political!" And by political, the implication is partisan, because otherwise it would be true by definition, and thus an uninteresting claim not
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The Constitution splits the nomination/confirmation process between two political branches. The process is supposed to be political! The founders explicitly said that they didn't intend the system to be partisan, and indeed w
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by _qulr 6y ago
> But we routinely look back to the 1800s to establish what is accepted practice in our government. Routinely?
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by _qulr 6y ago
I read it. The last time was over 150 years ago. Stop pretending this is a common occurrence.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Can we please stop talking about "precedent" when the last time was over 150 years ago? For some perspective, there were only 31 states at the time.
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by _qulr 6y ago
There's no democracy to preserve. The Supreme Court is inherently anti-democratic. As is the electoral college, the Senate, etc. The US Constitution is explicitly anti-democratic, and it always has been, as the founders intended. I&#x2
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by _qulr 6y ago
There's a tendency to overstate the popularity of our politicians. The President received 46% of the vote with 56% turnout, which means only 26% of the eligible vote. And many of those voters "plugged their nose" at the polls
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by _qulr 6y ago
Thanks for the info! I wanted to download the full game to check the code signature, but the size is so big (almost 100GB) that I didn't even have enough free disk space.
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by _qulr 6y ago
I won't. I'm not sure why my freedom, and the freedom of millions of other people, must be restricted for the sake of your technically unsophisticated parents. Must we "child-proof" (parent-proof?) the entire world?
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by _qulr 6y ago
I'm not sure it really matters. Only the Epic installer needs to go through macOS Gatekeeper. The downloaded games don't need to go through Gatekeeper. They can be signed with the same cert, or even be completely unsigned.
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's not that simple. I wrote a blog post about this: "Can't you just right click?" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's possible, but it would be very difficult. I wrote a blog post about this: "Can't you just right click?" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
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by _qulr 6y ago
The latest Fortnite for Mac installer was code signed and notarized 3 days ago, so this all seems very fishy to me. https://epicgames-download1.akamaized.net/Builds/UnrealEngin... codesign -d -vv ~/Downloads/
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by _qulr 6y ago
IMO the biggest issue with DDG is that you can't really advertise specifically on DDG. Most people don't realize this, but DDG doesn't sell their own advertising, they use Microsoft's advertising network! This just seems
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by _qulr 6y ago
The crucial data point is missing: "two very small incomes". US minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. 2 people working full-time at minimum wage would bring in a household income of $30k per year. But you couldn't possibly pay off
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by _qulr 6y ago
Standard Netflix is $12.99 per month currently. So that's $155.88 per year. Over 4 years, $623.52. You didn't pay off $60k in student loan debt and buy a house by refraining from Netflix.
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's funny, when we talk abstractly, we can look at the statistics and see that wealth in concentrated in the hands of a small % of people. But then when we break it down by age, or by gender, then suddenly, magically, this wealth beco
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by _qulr 6y ago
Can we please stop with the term "Millennials"? The article talks about 18-29 year olds. The most widely accepted definition of Millennials is people born 1981 to 1996, which would be 24-39 year olds. Not the same. Regardless, the
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by _qulr 6y ago
You can use the same technique with a:active to track link clicks, by the way. Technically, this would all be relatively easy to block with your own user style sheet. Practically, though, a lot of non-tracking sites rely on background-image
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by _qulr 6y ago
Heh, right. Because there's no degree of difficulty that exists between simple and Neo from The Matrix.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Who said it's simple? It's simpler than literally dodging a bullet, but that doesn't make it simple.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> He's a terrible public speaker Yes, this is the problem, it's always been the problem. Biden is a human gaffe machine, and this derailed his previous Presidential runs. Not sure why Democrats thought he was the "safe&quo

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